A Police Scotland spokesperson said: “Police Scotland’s cyber crime unit have been made aware of an incident involving a health board and are continuing to liaise with the organisation regarding the incident.”

But health board systems are expected to be up and running as normal later today.

Today an NHS Lanarkshire spokesperson said: “We’re looking at what the malware is but we’ve not had any confirmation on what it is yet.”

“The hope is we’ll get IT systems back to normal at some point today.”

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